[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder][qa] Should we enable multiattach in tempest-full?

Balázs Gibizer balazs.gibizer at ericsson.com
Mon Oct 1 08:26:15 UTC 2018



On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 10:35 PM, Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Nova, cinder and tempest run the nova-multiattach job in their check 
> and gate queues. The job was added in Queens and was a specific job 
> because we had to change the ubuntu cloud archive we used in Queens 
> to get multiattach working. Since Rocky, devstack defaults to a 
> version of the UCA that works for multiattach, so there isn't really 
> anything preventing us from running the tempest multiattach tests in 
> the integrated gate. The job tries to be as minimal as possible by 
> only running tempest.api.compute.* tests, but it still means spinning 
> up a new node and devstack for testing.
> 
> Given the state of the gate recently, I'm thinking it would be good 
> if we dropped the nova-multiattach job in Stein and just enable the 
> multiattach tests in one of the other integrated gate jobs.

+1

> I initially was just going to enable it in the nova-next job, but we 
> don't run that on cinder or tempest changes. I'm not sure if 
> tempest-full is a good place for this though since that job already 
> runs a lot of tests and has been timing out a lot lately [1][2].
> 
> The tempest-slow job is another option, but cinder doesn't currently 
> run that job (it probably should since it runs volume-related tests, 
> including the only tempest tests that use encrypted volumes).

If the multiattach test qualifies as a slow test then I'm in favor of 
adding it to the tempest-slow and not lengthening the tempest-full 
further.

gibi

> 
> Are there other ideas/options for enabling multiattach in another job 
> that nova/cinder/tempest already use so we can drop the now mostly 
> redundant nova-multiattach job?
> 
> [1] http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/#1686542
> [2] http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/#1783405
> 
> --
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
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